Which roles are currently open?
Add the engineering roles you are trying to fill. Add all of them, not just the urgent one - two open roles cost more than twice as much as one, because the same team covers both.
What role is open?
How many people do you need?
How many days has the role been vacant?
Approximate yearly cost for one employee.
Annual employee cost means salary plus everything else one person costs you - employer contributions, laptop, software licences, desk space. If you change the currency at the top we fill in typical local figures, so type your own over them.
What is your team working towards?
This is where an open role in medical devices is different from any other industry. You save one salary - but you can lose a date, and the date is usually worth far more than the salary.
Approval you need before you can sell in the United States.
Select your target date.
Approximate annual sales linked to this product. Not sure? Enter 0.
How many engineers are in the team? This tells us how much spare time they have to catch up.
How many quality issues are already overdue? These are the first thing an auditor asks to see.
How many days until your next audit? No audit planned? Enter 0.
Ready? Generate your full impact report.
We will estimate what the open roles are costing you, model how your target date could move, run 1,200 hiring scenarios to show the range of outcomes, and write a short summary you can put in front of your board.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and nobody is emailed unless you ask at the end.
ESTIMATED COST SO FAR
after taking off $14.5k of salary
COST OF EACH EXTRA DAY
$5.0k a week
POSSIBLE PROJECT DELAY
up to 122 days if hiring runs long
OVERALL IMPACT
40 / 100
Could your deadline move?
Based on your open roles, here is the estimated impact on your target date.
FDA submission
Where this date is likely to land once the missing work is caught up. The shaded area shows the range of outcomes, from a fast hire to a slow one.
How much work could be affected?
Calendar days turned into real working days of engineering, and the workload that lands on everybody else.
ENGINEERING TIME LOST
Working days of engineering already missed while the roles were open.
WORK STILL WAITING
More working days lost before a new hire is fully up to speed.
EXTRA TEAM WORKLOAD
Extra hours your existing team has taken on to cover the gap.
ESTIMATED BACKLOG
Work nobody has picked up, waiting to be cleared.
Where is the money going?
Every cost, line by line. The salary you are not paying is taken off, so this is a fair total and not a scary one.
Lost engineering capacity
Days of work lost × what a day costs you + 3
Overtime
35% of the missing work, paid at 1.25x
Hiring cost
16% of one year's employee cost
Estimated total impact
What should you do?
One recommendation based on your numbers.
Add temporary capacity now.
Your open roles are estimated to cost $720 per day and could delay your milestone by about 96 days. Adding an experienced engineer now can help clear the backlog while you continue hiring permanently. Two weeks on your own work costs about $3.8K, and you judge the result against a list you write before it starts.
"We have 1 engineering roles open, the longest for 0 days. That has already cost us about $75,316 in work not done, overtime and management time - after taking off the salary we did not pay. It is costing another $720 a day. With the team we have, our date of N/A is likely to become Feb 9, 2027 - about 96 days late. I suggest a two-week trial on our own backlog, judged against a list we agree before it starts, costing about $3,850, with nobody added to headcount."
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